Writer and DirectorFounding Artistic Director NYMadness

CECILIA COPELAND is a Midwestern, Latin-American, Israeli, Non-Princess and legal resident of Australia who chooses to live in her adopted home, New York.She climbed Masada at five years old, studied classical ballet and martial arts, was a dancer for MTV and owned her own cafe. She wrote her first short story in kindergarten about a snowflake, her first poem about hating vacuum cleaners, and in 1999 she wrote her first futuristic science-fiction short film about a female bomber blowing up amusement parks brought down by a female cop. That script answered the nagging call of uncertainty over her life's path. She is still writing sci-fi and strong female protagonists all these years later. *Copeland is a Graduate of the Stella Adler Acting Conservatory Studio in New York, an Alumna of the Writers Workshops at University of Iowa BA with Honors and a Minor in Dance and Ohio University MFA. Copeland is a Member of the New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT), League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW), an O'Neill and MADE IN NY Semifinalist, and an inductee into the Indie Theater Hall of Fame.

NEWS: TV

In 5515, ​RT, a precocious teenager begins her first day at school at TALATRICS in outer space, and must navigate her classmates, teachers, and The Prophecy that tore apart her world, while learning to control her special powers.​

NEWS: THEATRE ​

Description​We are virgins or whores, good or bad, cis or trans. If you're good you have to dress like it, act like it, and you better not swear or have sex! If you're bad, then you deserve every bad thing that happens to you! Choosing which kind of woman to be is the precarious path women walk before seeing we are all One Woman.

Audio Excerpt: Light of Night Produced by Necessary Exposure

From BroadwayWorld.comThe lack of gender diversity in American theatre has been a controversial topic for decades. While non-profit Off-Broadway companies have seen a steady rise in the number of plays produced that are written by women, there is a definite lack of equal representation in commercial Broadway.